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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… king Henry III, that none should make change of plate or other mass of silver, but in his exchange of London or Canterbury. 2 It was standing it seems, till king Edward … chaunge, then almost wholly in ruins, situated in the High-street, and in the parish of All Saints, to the master of the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… elegant public libraries and reading rooms, in the high-street, which are commodiously fitted up for the purpose, and …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… among the meads and garden-grounds, 1having two entrances or alleys leading to it, where formerly stood two gates; one … entrance was by a bridge at the end of Lamb-lane, in Stour-street. These friars, called at first Franciscans, from the … was a long grey coat down to their heels, with a cowl or hood, 3and a cord or rope about their loins, instead of a …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the archbishop's palace adjoining, where, within a day or two afterwards the archbishop entertained them with a … xxi. p. 26, for 1699, is an observation of some parhelia, or mock suns, seen by Mr. Stephen Gray, at Canterbury, on … colour, extended opposite to the sun, of about fifteen or twenty degrees in length; the upper part of the halo was …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… which have been at times found at the depth of eight or ten feet in the very centre of it, the certain work of … was a strong and well couched arched piece of Roman tile or brick, five or six feet below the floor of a house in Castle-street, which stopped the progress of the workmen in sinking …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… The borough of Stablegate THE BOROUGH OF STABLEGATE, or STAPLEGATE, as it was afterwards spelt, is a small … Saxon, in which language it signifies the resting-place or end of a journey, or the laying down of a burthen; for it … This district at present is bounded on the east by the street leading from Northgate to Palace-street; on the south, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… part of the land in the hundred of Bregge, at the nook or corner of Hwytefeldeshegge. In the reign of king Henry … at the end of the bridge of Westgate, to the breedth or wideness of the king's Stowere, 2 and beyond, of old … of Edmond de Staplegate, of Natyndon; 16 and then by the street of Natyndon unto the cross and a lane nye Winsole, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… that the present building was one of those many castles or fortresses built by William the Conqueror, for his better … which it has a very similar appearance. 2 It had a bayle or yard adjoining to it, of upwards of four acres, Surrounded … Ashford, it is now made to go in a strait line from Castle-street, over the middle of the castle bayle or yard, and so …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… which were not of the patronage of some religious house or abbey, in or in the near neighbourhood of the city, and these two were … SAINTS church is situated on the north side of the High-street, almost adjoining to Kingsbridge. It is a building, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… and Westgate, of the city; and that parcel, hamlet, or village of Winecheap, with other suburbs; and all the … and within the liberty of the city at that time, or of old time had been. (The hamlet of Staplegate within the … it to run thus, and that the felony was made in Westgate-street, in the county of Kent, for that the said selon was …